Delivery Scheduler

Job title: Delivery Scheduler

Start: Immediate

Contract: 3 months temp

Rate: £40 per hour (£46 on self-employed ltd. bases)

We are looking for candidates who have the drive, passion, and determination to support our client during its peak period to ensure operations are delivered.

An ideal candidate has a background in transportation and excellent data driven problem resolution skills. He/she has the ability to learn and execute a transportation process with ease. You will need to deliver daily operational tasks, analysing internal reports to develop your execution plans and then executing your plan. This job will require exceptional communication skills while having the ability to work independently in a high-pressure environment.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate transportation schedules between fulfilment centres and 3PL providers.
• Create the scheduled appointments.
• Book transportation with 3PL providers to deliver to fulfilment centres.
• Manages the quality of the transportation deliveries.
• Identify and eliminate root causes of defects in order to drive efficiency in the company’s transportation operations.
• Must be able to quickly understand the business impact of the trends and make decisions that make sense based on available data
• Must be able to systematically escalate problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered
• Operations reporting and data compliance check.
• Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed

Required skills

• 3+ years Operational Transportation or Supply Chain experience, preferably in a similar role, within a high-volume logistics, manufacturing or engineering environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to simplify complex topics for broad audiences
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Excellent customer service skills and commercial understanding
• Ability to drive complex analysis, and making data driven decisions.
• Data manipulation and analytics (excel)

Preferred skills

• SQL, PowerBI experience
• Fluent written and spoken German